Making an 18650 Personal Vaporizer Box Mod Part 2 - Building It

[marijabooboo]

hi steeljan, i absolutely love this video!, i was wondering f you could possibly just write a detailed script on how you made this mod. i understand you are probably a busy woman, but you would be my absolute biggest hero!

[marijabooboo]

p.s. i am speaking of the e-ciig vapo mod. thank-you

[DontLeaveMeLucile]

Are you still recharging your batteries outside on concrete jan? haha love your videos and you are the nicest and sweetest vaporer on youtube!! :) I just finished all of grimmgreen's videos, now I'm going to watch all of yours!

[steeljan]

@DontLeaveMeLucile When it's a lithium battery, yes, I recharge them outside on concrete. I'm leaning more towards using nimh batteries now, using two 4.8V nimh in series in a variable voltage mod that uses the same components as my homebuilt black variable voltage mod (it's in another of my videos). It's going fine so far, waiting to see the lifetime of the batteries at this point. Nimh batteries are far safer than lithium. Thanks!

[maddyzm]

This is an awesome DIY! I LOVE IT

[jasond529]

Awesome video. Very informative

[darthoni16]

thank you very much! 5 stars for you madam =)

[utubeweisong]

@steeljian apparently many sites are saying that using incorrect resistance atty will kill the battery which I do not understand the reason why. shouldn't it be the opposite that using LR atty on high voltage will kill the atty instead?

[steeljan]

@utubeweisong Yes, using a LR atty on high voltage can and probably will kill the atty. Due to the high amperage pulled by a LR atty, it can also potentially kill the battery and the mod as well. So yeah, 3.7V is plenty with a LR atty. You don't want to try vaping a LR atty at 5V or anything near that.

[utubeweisong]

@steeljan I want to do a box mod using 2 x 18650 battery to provide 5v vaping but I not sure how to go about it and it semantics. To say the batteries must be arrange in parallel with both positive facing the same direction? what ohm resistor should I use such that the current will not be too strong to kill my LR atty of 1.5ohms?

[steeljan]

@utubeweisong You'd have to either parallel the batteries and then run them through a buck circuit to raise it from 3.7V to 5V, or else you'd have to put them in series to make over 7V and then run that through a voltage regulator to bring it down to 5V. You're not going to be able to vape 1.5ohms on 5V, for a bunch of reasons. And putting in a current-limiting resistor, I suspect, would just get you a very very hot resistor. Realistically, 3.7V is plenty for a 1.5ohm atty.

[freddytk421]

That's the coolest thing ever.

[amandamaher]

Love love love. THANK YOU!!

[tsibie]

very nice tutorial ma'am. i am no electronic master but your lectures makes me wanna mod and is giving me guts on doing it. thank you.

[cortlong]

super simple and awesome haha.

thanks for posting this, its bad ass.

[sunhouse76]

Anyone know what radio shack would be in ENGLAND please?

wow that was something. Id love to try doing one :O) but as i say shops like that are hard to come by here!!

[steeljan]

@sunhouse76 I did some googling and found t2retail.co dot uk that seems to carry a lot of radio shack parts. A lot of times I have built mods by scavenging parts out of various electronics in my local thrift shop. I also order parts from like madvapes. Happy modding, thanks for watching.

[AngeLsLuv]

Great video as usual.. I had no idea how you did it, but enjoyed watching it..

[steeljan]

@AngeLsLuv LOL, thanks!

[sweet1553]

Hi hi! Have you considered intellectus 424 diet (google it)? Ive heard some awesome things about it and my work buddy lost a ton of weight with it.

[borismontoya136]

Do you have to use an led and resistor? I tried making a box mod with 2x AA batteries and when i tried it out it did nothing (I think it was shorting) i have a master switch and a push button too. Please answer my question :)

[steeljan]

@borismontoya136 No, you don't have to use an LED & resistor, that's just an indicator, it doesn't do anything for the functionality. But if you mean you really used 2 AA batteries then that's your problem. Two AA batteries in series only gives you 3V and very little amperage, too little voltage and too few amps to vaporize the e-liquid, the coil isn't getting hot enough. That's why usually protected lithium ion batteries are used.

[borismontoya136]

@steeljan ooh I see now. I ordered some 14500 protected 3.7v batteries hope that will work :) thanks for helping.

[ogropt]

Thx for answering,

I'm building a coil with socket ends, for easy cleaning and substitution, in adition to a tank mod. I was using a 32 AWG with a cotton wick inside and it takes some time to heat, probably cause of the wire length... Thx for the tip, i'll try a 36 AWG and mesure it like you! ^^

[steeljan]

@ogropt If you're trying cotton for the wicking inside the coil or anywhere where it will get hot, when I tried it, it scorched & burned. I tried a ton of stuff for wicking and the only thing that worked outside of using silica string was cleaned, pressed, and dried fiber left over from juicing wheatgrass. I know, it sounds wierd. It does make the vape taste slightly grassy, but it doesn't burn as long as it's kept wet with juice. 32ga is probably ok, just ohm it and make sure it's low enuff

[ogropt]

Hey steeljan, I wanna thank you for all the effort you've been puting out on your videos. it means a lot to me. I'm working on a atomizer project and I wanna ask you a question: what's the lenth and diameter of a nichrome wire for a 3.7v 800mah fed coil?

Thank you and Keep up the good work!

[steeljan]

@ogropt In my atty-making experiments, I found the best way to get the correct length was to ohm it. And I used 36ga. To ohm it, I put one of the leads of my multimeter at the cut end, then slid the other lead down until I got the ohms I wanted, say 2ohms, dent it with my nail and cut. It's not a very long length of wire. Now, I was silver-soldering mine to posts in my homemade atty, but if you are going to wind yours around a screw post you'll have to figure that in too.

[omillie32]

that is a fuck ton of vapor are u sure thats not smoke? and it got too hot so it burned it?

[steeljan]

@omillie32 LOL, yep, I'm sure, it's not smoke. This pv makes other appearances in my videos, a good one is my SmokelessImage Volt review where I test a Volt cartomizer on it. Always a lot of vaper with this puppy. Thanks!

[caima123]

thank you again steelan been doing some research and pretty simple to make one actually lol

[caima123]

thank you steeljan for answering my questions , now do you think you could make a tutorial on making a nico-drip i mean i found a tread but they do not tell you how to mod the automiser to make it take the drip please helppppp

[steeljan]

@caima123 Well, I thought about doing one of those a long time ago when I was still using atties. But when I started using cartomizers I dropped the juice-fed mod desire altogether. Seems very simple to do though.

[caima123]

thank you sooo much for even bother to answer me questions that is soooooo nice of you i just have one more , is the middle part of the atomizer the positive prong or is it the out side ? to me it makes sence that the middle one would be the positive prong could you please verify if this is tru

[steeljan]

@caima123 Doesn't matter, which ever way you want to make it. Most e-cigs have the center as positive and the outer as negative.

[caima123]

thank you for the tip but no worries im confident i can make a mod i was just wondering if it was safe to use normal unprotected batts but i guess it is worth the investment thank you for your tips and vape on

[steeljan]

@caima123 Never use unprotected batteries in e-cigs, they will blow up if you undervolt them, overvolt them, or are accidentally shorted. A lot of folks are now using IMR batteries because they deliver higher amperage and will not blow up if overvolted or undervolted, however, these will still blow up if accidentally shorted. Ask Basilray, he's had blow-ups. I helped one guy with his design for an e-cig with nimh batteries, that worked just fine, but of course it used a lot of them, big, bulky

[caima123]

hello there wow you are great i loved how you made that mod , seems like you know alot about electronics and i was wondering if you could please help me . i will like to build a mod how ever im a little scare because i was reading on people reporting battery exploding on their mods , now i know there has got to be a way arrond that i dont know maybe check the ohms on the vaporizer and then determine if i need a resister im kinda lost i just dont want to have an explotion please help!!!!!

[steeljan]

@caima123 Only those with electronics experience should build mods. Also, I think only those who understand the volatility of lithium batteries should use an e-cig mod. Mods use 400+ times more amperage than a cellphone yet we put them in our mouths, right near our eyeballs, think about that. If you still insist on a mod, only use a protected battery. If it uses 2 batteries, buy them new at the same time and keep the pair together always, never mix them up. No IMR batteries either.

[MrPoppinballz]

please tell me the drill part.... i suck with the drilling thinggy

[steeljan]

@MrPoppinballz I just take the part I want to make a hole for, go through my drill bit set until I find the one that is slightly larger, and use that one. Or if I want a tighter fit, I choose one slightly smaller and then use my knife or a file to gently make the hole larger to the size I want.

[suzuki834]

awsome but u should add a heat controller cause that was all smoke

[steeljan]

@suzuki834 ??? 

[arrtturro]

awesome

[steeljan]

@arrtturro Thanks!

[KiDD275]

is it ok to use hot glue rather than epoxy to seal connections?

[steeljan]

@KiDD275 It depends. As long as I'm adding a heat sink, a way to keep the heat from the atomizer from getting down into my mod, in this case it's the two washers AND if I am building it just for my own use, then yes, I could choose to use hot glue. But if I had any worries that heat was going to get into the mod OR if I were building this mod for somebody else, then I would definitely epoxy. Cheers!

[CarolinaDraw]

GOOD jOB! WOW! Learned lots from you. :)

[steeljan]

@CarolinaDraw You're quite welcome! Thanks!

[light487]

Thanks for making it look easy.. one question I have is to do with the inner-pin solder. Where did you put the solder...? It seems like, from the video, that you stuck the resistor wire in the bottom, stuck the solder iron in the top and hey presto it was soldered. What is the trick there? Just drop a small piece of solder down the top of the hole? Or get some solder on the iron? or what?

[steeljan]

@light487 I buy the 510 atomizer-battery connections from madvapes and always get the ones with a center hole. That way, I can put my wire up through the hole and solder from the top. Makes a much more solid connection and easier.

[KiDD275]

wow thats awesome

[iamnottomgreen]

Not the type of vaporizer I was thinking of........

[hamslap]

Does anyone know the approximate blast radius of an 18650 experiencing catastrophic battery failure? I don't have much concrete on the back of my home, so I want to make sure it's far enough from the house while charging.

[QCAssociates]

Thanks teach! Good Mod and great way to teach people the right way!

[Mr420ways]

brass is way healthyer

[usagold101]

very good video, do you know how to do a Variable Voltage mod, could you please do a video

[sexyblanket]

Awsome video!!

[bigbear34744]

hey jan there is a ty video to you and some fellow brewers that i watched on my channel your one of the ones that made me decide to do my first homebrew

[immolateus]

I like the pocket knife, I have one that looks similar is it a Laguiole?

[steeljan]

@immolateus Thanks. Oh no, it's nothing fancy at all, just something I've kept with me over the years. I won it at an Indiana Sesquicentennial carnival game back in 1966. It says Imperial USA on the blade.

[yaap10]

Move over mcgyver steeljan in the house lol very impressive stuff once again out of you your a bucket of knowledge thanks for the tips and for the good vids cheers

[steeljan]

@yaap10 LOL, thanks.

[bmeyer44]

you're much braver than I am with that electrical/wiring/soldering stuff....I'm doing good to change out an electrical outlet!!

[steeljan]

@bmeyer44 Thanks. But it's not bravery, lol. As a 30-year electrical-mechanical engineer where I did most of my own prototyping work, and certified in NASA soldering standards, this is very simple to me.

BTW, I cannot bring myself to watch your new taxidermy videos, LOL, I just can't.

[bmeyer44]

@steeljan I guess I'm just morbid...not much bothers me...but I figured some people wouldn't like it, so thats why I put those in a separate playlist...maybe when I get to the actual mounting and it's not gross you could watch!! LOL

[bigbear34744]

wow galof a thousand tradesmakes beer and mods lol all teasing aside great videos jan

[steeljan]

@bigbear34744 Thanks a bunch Mr. BigBear. Cheers!